Hancock Street & Wyckoff Avenue

Hancock Street and Wyckoff Avenue meet at a three-way junction in Bushwick (East), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Robert E. Peary School is 970 feet away. The nearest subway, Halsey St, is about two minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, four of them religious buildings, and 19 places to eat.

Safety record
2 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Halsey St
520 feet · 2 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
20 feet
Wyckoff Av/Weirfield St · B26
Within a walk
7 places
4 religious buildings, 2 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Hancock Street & Wyckoff Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Halsey St, 520 feet from this corner, about two minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Halsey St L
    520 feet
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.3 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Wyckoff Av/Weirfield St, 20 feet away, for the B26.

  • 15 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Wyckoff Av/Weirfield St B26
    20 feet
    B26

Next buses at this stop

  1. B26 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Hancock Street and Wyckoff Avenue.

  • 11 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Putnam Ave & Wyckoff Ave 24 docks in all
    870 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1 mile by car along the streets.

  1. 952 Wyckoff Avenue Gas station
    580 feet
  2. 391 Weirfield Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 2 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (East)
Elevation
66 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1910 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 44 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 47 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the Japanese zelkova.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 44 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between August 2017 and May 2020, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

North side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Hancock Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY 6AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY

East side of Wyckoff Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

West side of Wyckoff Avenue

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 2 schools
  • 1 listed historic place

Schools and child care

  1. Robert E. Peary School
    970 feet
  2. P.S. 239 School
    1,280 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cornelia-Putnam Historic District Listed historic place
    1,070 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Billy's Marketplace Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Other stores

  1. Dollar Tree Store
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 19 places to eat and 15 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Hancock Street or Wyckoff Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYC City Planning, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.